MEDIA ADVISORY, Tuesday, June 19, 2007

CONYERS AND STARK WELCOME MICHAEL MOORE TO CAPITOL HILL

Press Conference, Briefing to Address For-Profit Health Care and the Crisis of the Uninsured

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Pete Stark (CA-13) will on Wednesday welcome Academy-Award winning director Michael Moore for a press conference and briefing on the for-profit health care system and the tens of millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans.

WHO:

* Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers
* Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Pete Stark
* Academy-Award winning director Michael Moore
* Additional Members invited.

WHAT: Press Conference and Briefing

The briefing will be conducted in a hearing-style format. Clips from “Sicko,” Moore’s new movie, will be screened.

WHERE: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building

WHEN:

* 1:30 p.m. Press Conference
* 2:00 p.m. Briefing


This movie is part of the collection: Report to the Congress: Congressional Hearings Online

Producer: Hon. John Conyers
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: gov.house.judiciary; hooptedoodle; Moore; Health

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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If you would like to experiment with different presentations of the video, we have created a 6' 33" excerpt, which you can view on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csKjFzuIhQw">YouTube</a>, or download a 320x240 MP4 clip (<a href="http://ia300017.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.house.judiciary.2007.06.19/trimmed.mp4">75 Mbytes</a>) or a full-res H.264 version (<a href="http://ia300017.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.house.judiciary.2007.06.19/trimmed.h264.mov">232 Mbytes</a>). This hearing is also available on <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-655633341793063771">Google Video.</a> Music is the incomparable Orkestra Synthetique playing <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/Flight_of_the_Bumblebee_Orkestra_Synthetique">Flight of the Bumblebee.</a>